noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thermostat (= for controlling temperature )
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a thermostat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
turn
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The room was hot when he entered, and he turned down the thermostat on the wall.
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The way it works is this: I leave the room, she turns the thermostat up to 80.
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Jane found it cold, but her visitors found it freezing, so she turned up the thermostat to seventy.
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Cheryl Bradshaw finds herself turning down the thermostat more often this week.
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Paul used to turn the thermostat down when John was not looking.
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He got up and turned the thermostat to sixty and Dooley stomped back to bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An hour later, when the house begins to feel like the Mekong Delta, I check the thermostat .
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Buy a programmable thermostat that will turn your heating system on and off according to your schedule.
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If the temperature of the heating system seems erratic, the fault may lie with the boiler thermostat .
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It would differ very greatly in degree from the simple algorithm of the thermostat , but need not differ in principle.
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Like thermostats, they constantly adjust such things as neurotransmitter release and receptor sensitivity to compensate for perturbations from the environment.
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The thermostat goes under the water, with the heater.
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The remedy is to renew the thermostat .
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Try altering the setting on the thermostat dial; if nothing changes the thermostat is probably faulty.